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Useful reference: 638
Erythrina poeppigiana O.F. Cook. is a large tree with conspicuous orange flowers. The natural range is from Panama and Venezuela to the western parts of the Bolivian and Peruvian Amazon.
Widely used as a shade tree for coffee where trees usually kept pruned to 2-3 m. Recent trials as fodder tree in Colombia where it was grown from stakes and harvested after 18 months and then every 90 days.
Leaves large and more easily harvested then Leucaena. It has been used in diets for cattle, sheep and goats in Colombia and proved a useful protein supplement.
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638
Cattle(616), Composition(33), Dairy(4), Goats(620), Intercropping(21), Protozoa(616)